My, how quickly the hockey world moves. It took only a few hours for our rankings to get outdated, originally focusing on the security of Ottawa Senators head coach D.J. Smith, only for him to get fired by the afternoon. He’s still the topic of discussion later in this article, so appreciate Mike Gould’s words as a time capsule of sorts, but we’ve revamped the theme of the power rankings as a whole.

Mike and I continue to navigate through the results so far with another week of our co-op power rankings. I have my same old system which I aggregate six stats (points %, 5-on-5 goal differential, 5-on-5 xGF/60, 5-on-5 xGA/60, power play xGF/60, and shorthanded xGA/60, all coming courtesy of Natural Stat Trick) to come up with a list that eliminates my own biases, along with a rule that no team can be above a team that’s more than five points ahead of them in the standings, regardless of where the aggregate places them. On the other hand, Mike goes off his own intellect and pure vibes, and together we find a way to combine it and meet in the middle.